immediate

Adjective

• performed with little or no delay
  • an immediate reply to my letter
    
  • a prompt reply
    
  • was quick to respond
    
  • a straightaway denial
    

• immediately before or after as in a chain of cause and effect
  • the immediate result
    
  • the immediate cause of the trouble
    

• having no intervening medium
  • an immediate influence
    

• very close or connected in space or time
  • contiguous events
    
  • immediate contact
    
  • the immediate vicinity
    
  • the immediate past
    

• of the present time and place
  • the immediate revisions
    

Related words

• Synonyms: 
  prompt , quick , straightaway , contiguous